The victory of France and its American allies reaffirmed France’s status as a great military power. Introduction...
France
Explore France through its monarchies, revolutions, empires, republics, wars, art, political conflicts, and cultural influence. These histories follow the people and institutions that shaped the country while tracing its changing place in Europe and the world.
Moscow has a long-standing history with Le Pen and her party. Introduction Days before the second round...
Exploring what made Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play....
Being in debt was once an artful promenade — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and...
The French context is so incredibly problematic when it comes to dealing with the whole history of...
Records of the Parisian gallery Tedesco frères tell a story of commercial success. By Dr. Isabella Zuralski-YeagerSpecial...
Amiens Cathedral provides a window into the practice and culture of religious belief of the Middle Ages....
Although declaimed against at the time of the French Revolution, it was used both by the revolutionary...
They followed a similar pattern of studying abroad for a few years and returning home to teach...
It could be an early scene in a monster movie. In fact, it’s an image of the...
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, established in 1648 oversaw – and held a monopoly over...
On the morning of 18 Brumaire, Lucien Bonaparte falsely persuaded the Councils that a Jacobin coup was...
After the revolution, one of the ways the French government seized assets, property, and art collections. Introduction...
Some citizens were more equal than others. Introduction Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic...
People had become less and less likely to lend much credibility to witness testimony. One lazy afternoon...
What did it mean to become a citizen of the new nation? Originally published by Newberry Digital...
Exploring the legacy of the empire and state-system imposed on Europe during the Napoleonic wars. Napoleon has...
During one attack in 1393, Charles could not remember his name, did not know he was king,...
By the end of the thirteenth century the social context for the abandonment of infants and children...
About 3000 resisters, many under the age of 25, were tried in German military courts in France...
Napoleon didn’t like sitting for portraits, and yet artists and mass market prints helped cement his legendary...
Popular uprisings and resistance to taxation played havoc with the nine departments into which the National Assembly...
It was an era and a culture that was both misogynist and racist, in which Jews from...
The Exchange of Arrows Between Death and Cupid, ca. 1665–1701, Pierre Landry (publisher). Engraving. The Getty Research...
“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” “Be afraid. Be very afraid.” These words could have been reasonably spoken...
The politicization of the French peasantry before and during the Revolutionary period has been the topic of...
The concept of absolutism – the divine right to rule – dominated the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
His name is associated with the Reign of Terror which claimed thousands of lives of “enemies of...
Calling the French liars, atheists, and libertines, undoubtedly evoked a general sense of immorality and disrepute. In...
Many British radicals interpreted the early events of the French Revolution in mythic terms – akin to the Christian apocalypse. In 1789, many...